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THE UNIVERSITY 
AND THE WOMAN 



THIS BOOKLET IS ADDRESSED TO THE YOUNG 
WOMEN OF OREGON AND NEIGHBORING STATES. 
ITS MISSION IS TO PRESENT TO THEM, THEIR 
PARENTS AND ADVISERS, INFORMATION ABOUT 
THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON : TO TELL THEM 
WHAT THE UNIVERSITY HAS IN THE WAY OF 
OPPORTUNITIES AND ADVANTAGES FOR THE 
GIRL WITH AN EARNEST DESIRE TO PREPARE 
HERSELF FOR LIFE. 



PUBLISHED BY 



THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 
EUGENE OREGON* 







The Library of the University or Oregon is centrally located and is a convenient rendezvous of the 

students. The commodious reading-room is usually filled with industrious students, and, on pleasant 

days, there is frequently an overflow onto the spacious steps. 

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An Education 

MANY great educators and philosophers have attempted 
to define education, and no one of them, perhaps, 
has succeeded in putting into one statement all that 
education is or may be. As good as any other is the expres- 
sion that education represents the full development of one's 
mind and character. That is the ideal of education, at least. 
The degree to which that ideal is approached is conditional 
upon the adequacy of the faculty and facilities of the col- 
lege and upon the response of the student to the opportu- 
nity. 

The vague, popular notion that education is merely 
"learning things out of books" could hardly be more erro- 
neous. Books, and the mastery of their contents, are merely 
means to an end. So far from being unpractical is educa- 
tion that, considered fairly on its merits, it is one of the 
most practical things in the whole range of man's institu- 
tions. In this day, a man or woman must be educated to 
survive. The education may be given in some other way 
than by attending college : gained by hard experience, with- 
out guidance, without instruction, without sympathy — but 
gained it must be — or the individual drops out — becomes 
merely inert, unvital, not profiting by life, contributing 
nothing to it. 

It is the idea of the University that the four years of 
youth following the high school period can be best spent 
in a university, where all the resources of educational ex- 
perts and appliances are made available for the best and 
highest and most practical preparation of youth for the 
years that follow. 

A university is a human institution, and being such, it 
is defective and falls just about as far short of its aim as 
do other human institutions; but the purpose, the ideal is 
there. 



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In the pleasant reception room of Mary Spiller hall, the girls who live there gather of an evening, 

before study hours, for a visit or to entertain their friends. The twenty-five girls residing at Mary 

Spiller are a congenial group of young women. 



The education of today is not that of a generation ago ; 
nor will it be the same a generation hence. This is as it 
should be. It is evidence of the fact that education is con- 
stantly seeking to adapt itself to the constantly changing 
needs of society. Today education strives to adjust itself 
to the requirements of each individual. In this process 
there are discernible two movements — not distinct, but in- 
terblended — which may be called the cultural and the voca- 
tional. In the first of these, the cultural, the direction is 
toward the improvement of the mind, the sharpening of the 
intellect, the cultivation of judgment and taste, the deep- 
ening of the sympathies. The student is guided into the 
great temple of knowledge, becomes familiar with some of 
its rooms, knows how to find his way to others. A cultural 
education is a rich and fine experience — one that ennobles 
and enlightens and beautifies. 

The vocational tendency, on the other hand, considers 
immediate needs. Its purpose, frankly, is to prepare the 
student for his "life work" — to give him the highly special- 
ized training that is needed by the boy or girl that plans 
to enter any one of the professions or vocations. Of late 



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A girl's room, either at home or at college, is a reflex of her personality. That it should be neat, well 
lighted and well ventilated goes without saying. That it should be cheerful, attractive and homelike is 

hardly less to be desired. 

years, the tendency has been to emphasize the value of 
such occupational training, and the result has been the mul- 
tiplication of various "schools" purposed to produce ex- 
perts in every conceivable occupation. 

Culture and efficiency are not incompatible. In fact the 
only valid definition of culture is one that contains full 
recognition of the fact that man must serve society in some 
valuable way, and the highly trained expert whose capacity 
is limited to his one specialty is in the long run compelled 
to give way to his competitor whose educational founda- 
tions have been more broadly and soundly laid. 

Education is not merely preparation for life ; it is life 
itself. The years spent at a university are not spent merely 
to prepare the student for the years that follow, but are in 
themselves a rich and delightful experience. And that is 
just and right; for youth is too precious a period of life 
to be denied its own rightful prerogative of quick enthu- 
siasms and unselfish loyalties, impulsive friendships and 
wholesome joys. These are a part of the priceless heritage 
of youth; and any educational scheme that leaves out of 
account the reasonable satisfaction of the demands of youth 
is not likely to survive. 



6 The University of Oregon 

Co-Education 

/ ""pHE University of Oregon is a co-educational institution. 
That is a cardinal principle of its foundation and its 
policy. The girl is granted the same opportunities as the 
boy. In every respect are the educational requirements of 
the young women given the same consideration as those 
of the young man. 

The essential correctness of the principle of co-education 
is hardly debatable. It is practiced by every state univer- 
sity, college and normal school in our country, with only 
a very few exceptions — and those largely among the older 
and more conservative Eastern institutions. The practice 
of segregating students into colleges exclusively for one 
sex or the other has been abandoned. 

The movement toward co-education is in harmony with 
the spirit of the times. The emergence of woman from a 
condition of dependency, of subordination, in which her 
activity was limited largely to the occupation of house- 
keeper, into a plane that is practically that of men, is an 
outstanding feature of the social history of the last three 
decades. Two generations ago all that was expected of a 
woman was that she be able competently to discharge her 
obligations as mother and home-maker. True, there were 
women school teachers, girls that worked in factories, dress- 
makers and so on, and occasionally a woman of pronounced 
independence who defied the conventions by filling a man's 
place in the professional or industrial world. But there 
was an utter failure to recognize the inalienable right of a 
woman to find an expression for her capacities and talents 
— an utter failure to recognize the need of society for the 
services of the woman, whose large abilities were atrophied 
by disuse. 

That day, fortunately, has passed. Now, there is hardly 
a department in all the multifarious activities of the world 
to which women are not admitted — and gladly. In the pro- 
fessions, in the great world of industry, in the arts, in ed- 
ucation, in politics, in journalism — everywhere, there are 



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found women in ever increasing numbers. There is no 
longer any wonderment about it. It is an accepted fact. 

Nor in all this casting off of traditional limitation is 
there any loss to the function of woman in the home. Rather 
is there an immeasurable gain. The words "mother" and 
"home" have lost nothing of their holiness. In fitting them- 
selves for places in the world of affairs, women have come 
to realize the value of scientific principles and methods, and 
have come to apply these same methods and principles to 
their duties within the home. Housekeeping, the bearing 
and rearing of children — these, and all the infinitely impor- 
tant matters which these terms include, were largely un- 
scientific, traditional practices. Today women bring to their 
maternal and domestic functions the same efficient man- 
agement that is practiced in the industrial world. 

Today, in an entirely new sense, American women are 
citizens. In all of the states through which this booklet 
will circulate, women are enfranchised. They are charged 
with the duties of citizenship. The responsibility for the 
welfare of society rests equally upon the shoulders of men 
and women. 

This movement — the emergence of woman — has not yet 
reached its crest. The great war has given it a new and 




Out-of-door sleeping is no longer a fad; it is a hygienic necessity. Nearly all of the sorority houses 
have sleeping porches similar to the one pictured above. 



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A combined study and sleeping room in Mary Spiller hall. Almost all girls take pride in their rooms 
and supply the individual touches that make them pleasant. 

grim significance. In war-desolated Europe, women have 
been compelled to fill the places left vacant by the hus- 
bands and brothers who themselves are filling the trenches 
— and the graves. In a score — a hundred ways are women 
being called on — and most effectively are they responding. 

How shall women meet the new demands? 

There is only one way — one answer. 

That way — that answer — is by education. 

The world has little use for an untrained man. But at 
least it can use his brute strength in the performance of 
tasks that do not call for skill. 

But the untrained woman? To her it assigns its most 
repulsive tasks. Of course, there is a chance that she may 
marry— and visit upon her husband and children the curse 
of her ignorance and inefficiency. But for the educated 
woman — for the woman who has trained her mind to think 
logically, for the woman who has at least learned the en- 
trance way to the world's great store-house of knowledge, 
for the woman who has acquired skill and training in those 
tasks which, as mother and home-maker, she will probably 
be called upon to perform, for the woman who has fitted 
herself for some position in the world of work — for women 
of this kind the world has never had so great a need. 



The University and the Woman 9 

The Decision 

vy/ITH graduation from high school comes the need of 
W a great decision. What shall be the next step? At 
the age of seventeen or eighteen, it is the exceptional girl 
who has found a definite plan for her life. The normal 
girl looks forward to the time when she will marry. But 
now she is too young, too undeveloped, too unprepared. 
Shall she remain at home with her father and mother, help- 
ing with the housework, reading desultorily, enjoying what- 
ever social life is offered by the community in which she 
lives? Many a girl does that, and the result is usually — ■ 
not always, but usually — wasted years and, later, regrets. 

Or shall the girl seek entrance into one of the very few 
positions open to an untrained girl under twenty? Piti- 
fully few are the opportunities and no less pitifully meagre 
the returns. The thought of domestic service is repugnant. 
There may be the chance of employment as saleswoman or 
stock-girl at a wage that would hardly support life, with 
long hours, and under conditions that are, all too frequent- 
ly — neither hygienic nor morally wholesome. Possibly, 
after a short course in a "Business College," she can learn 
enough of stenography and typewriting to find work in an 
office. Conditions and wages may be better, but at best 
they are none too good, and the opportunity for advance- 
ment is of the slightest. 

What remains? Nothing — for the average girl — except 
maybe, the drudgery of manual labor in a laundry of can- 
ning factory. 

This is in no sense a criticism of the girl who works. 
There can be no more heroic act than that of the daughter 
or sister who courageously accepts the burden of contrib- 
uting to the support of the family. But that does not min- 
imize the sacrifice she must make. And fortunately, in the 
Pacific Northwest, the family that really requires the con- 
tribution that a daughter can make by employment is ex- 
ceptionally rare. 




At the top: "Corrective gymnastics" designed to remedy defects in the girl's physique. Next below: "Indoor 

baseball" played out of doors by a group of enthusiastic girls. Next in order: An exciting scrimmage in a game 

of hockey. At the left: Entrance to the Girls' Gymnasium. At the bottom: Class work in the "Gym". 



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What then? Is there no other alternative? Happily, 
there is. The people of Oregon, operating through the com- 
munity of interest known as the state, have provided for 
their daughters an institution of higher learning — a Univer- 
sity, where a girl, after the completion of her course in the 
local high school, may go for four years more of study, of 
training, of preparation. What, then, shall the decision 
be? There should be but one answer. For a girl of av- 
erage intelligence, who has successfully completed her high 
school course, there can be but one valid reason why she 
should not go to college : an imperative need of her service 
by her family. 

The University is society's answer to the girl's question : 
What shall I do now that I have graduated from high school ? 
In other sections of this booklet will be found an attempt 
to explain just how the University solves the problem. 



Courses of Study 



'HP HE University is a complex and highly organized in- 
stitution: the result of a long evolutionary process 
which has sought, always, the best means of training youth 
for the experience of life. In an earlier and a simpler day, 
when education was held the privilege of the few — the so- 
called "upper classes" — the courses of instruction were lim- 
ited to the languages, ancient and modern — literature, math- 
ematics and history, with a possible introduction to the 
natural and social sciences. 

This elementary curriculum has grown and ramified in 
every direction. The modern university — and especially the 
state university — is a highly socialized institution. It of- 
fers training that is designed to meet the needs — not of the 
favored few, but of the many of the society which it serves. 
It recognizes the fact that the great majority of the youth 
of the state must, very early in life, enter, in some capacity 
or other, the world of industry. To put the matter directly, 
"they must go to work.' This is true of the girl as well as 
the boy, for, although the percentage of young women who 



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Architect's drawing of the "Women's Union" — an institution that devoted friends of the women of the 
University have dreamed of and worked for, and which now bids fair to be realized. It will contain a 
gymnasium, reception room, guest rooms, kitchens, etc., and will give to the life of the women on the 

campus a new distinction. 



enter the various vocations after leaving college is small, 
in comparison to that of the young men, yet when the girl 
marries, she assumes the duties of an occupation that calls 
for the highest degree of trained intelligence and technical 
skill — that of house-keeper and home-maker. 

Within the limits of this publication, it is not possible, 
nor needful, to present a detailed exposition of the courses 
of study offered by the University of Oregon. That may 
be found in the general catalog. 

The University is divided into various schools, the Col- 
lege of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, 
the School of Medicine, the School of Law, the School of Ar- 
chitecture, the School of Journalism, the School of Com- 
merce and the School of Music. The various schools are 
not entirely independent, but rather are interlocked, the 
courses of one being open, under various restrictions, to the 
students of another. 

In the existence of these various schools will be found 
a recognition of two facts : first, that students have various 
needs, various aptitudes; second, that society, constantly 
becoming more complex, demands of those who are to serve 
it a training more and more highly specialized. 



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Young women entering the University of Oregon fall 
into two classes — those who look forward to some partic- 
ular career or caling, and those who do not. Many of the 
latter class, before finishing their college course, will have 
discovered their particular bent, and concentrated their 
work to that end. Many of the former class may never ac- 
tually make use of their vocational training after leaving 
college ; or may utilize it for only a short) time. But if the 
"career" is interrupted by marriage, the training is by 
no means lost ; it is only diverted. Every woman is a better 
wife, a better mother, by reason of the very training that 
has fitted her for some occupational life. And the realiza- 
tion that, should the need arise, she could actually support 
herself, and in addition, those who may be dependent upon 
her, will give her a sense of security and confidence that will 
dignify her whole existence. Society has definitely set its 
stamp of disapproval on the parasitic woman — the woman 
who takes and does not give. 

It does not follow that every girl should necessarily 
learn a trade or a business. It does follow that any girl is 
greatly benefited by a training that will enable her to face 
the possible necessity of supporting herself. 




Architect's drawing of the new girl's dormitory. This building, now in course of construction, will 
provide residence for about 89 girls. It is, of course, entirely modern, comfortable and suitably ap- 
pointed for the convenience of the women students who will make it their home. The new dormitory 

is adjacent to the old one — Mary Spiller. 



14 The University of Oregon 

Vocational Training For Women 

/^\N other pages of this publication the value of vocational 
^^^ training for women has been presented. Its impor- 
tance cannot be too strongly emphasized. It is the sum- 
mons of the times in which we live, and women — progres- 
sive, forward-looking women — must heed that imperative 
call. 

The University of Oregon is equipped to provide for 
its women students adequate preparation for scores of dif- 
ferent occupations. Hundreds of its women graduates are 
now filling places of trust in the professional, the industrial 
and the educational world; and every year the graduating 
class contributes an increased quota to the numbers of wo- 
men happily placed in dignified and remunerative positions. 

It has been made clear that a purely occupational train- 
ing at the expense of a broad cultural education is not in 
harmony with the purposes of the University. Nor is it 
supposed that every girl will leave the University an ex- 
pert in some calling. Whenever the University becomes 
merely a, training school or a business college, the state and 
society will be immeasurably the loser. But if the girl stu- 
dent is persuaded by aptitude or by circumstances to pre- 
pare herself for work in a preferred field, the University 
offers her the training she requires. And if there is neither 
the need nor the desire, at least such occupational prepara- 
tion as she may gain will enable her to face life with greater 
confidence and courage. 

Teaching 

Teaching has always been, and in all probability will 
remain, the profession preferred by the majority of women. 
For it they are naturally qualified. Their innate sympa- 
thy, their patience, their faithfulness, their instinctive un- 
derstanding of child nature — all combine to fit them for 
this dignified and ennobling vocation. 

The University, through its School of Education, is 
splendidly equipped to train teachers. Its courses of study 



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are soundly organized, its faculty composed of educational 
experts. It prepares its students for any of the varied po- 
sitions open in the educational field. These positions are 
constantly increasing in variety. Specialization is more and 
more demanded. Women are trained to teach in the grades, 
in the high school, in college ; to serve as supervisors of mu- 
sic, drawing, physical training, public speaking, nature 
study, etc., in the grammar schools; to fill positions as prin- 
cipals, superintendents and other executive offices. Through 
the appointment bureau, positions are secured for teachers. 

Librarians 

Library work offers a congenial and profitable employ- 
ment for women; and, manifestly, a college education is 
almost a prerequisite. The more thorough the acquaintance 
with the great body of knowledge, the better will be the 
chances and the easier the road to success. This is a day 
of specialization, even in the public library; and the girl 
who contemplates entering library work may well shape 
her college course to that end. Moreover, the University 
offers special courses in library methods, and practical ex- 
perience may be gained in the splendidly equipped library. 




This is a corner of a "tent house" in which two University girls kept house, bachelor girl style, and 
emerged victorious in a contest with the universal enemy — the high cost of living. Their story is told 

elsewhere. 



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Social Service 

In the broadening field of social service, women are not 
only filling places of importance, but are actually taking 
the lead ; and the demand for women who combine with vig- 
orous personality and power of organization the quickened 
intelligence and the broadening vision that is gest gained 
by a college education is a great and growing one. Social 
settlement work, Child Welfare Leagues, Consumers' 
Leagues, Sanitary Commissions, and so on, all require the 
service of competent officers, and, more often than not, 
these positions are filled by college women. Secretaryships 
of the Young Women's Christian Association offer opportu- 
nities for devoted and worthy service. 

To fill positions of these kinds, the university training 
should be of the most liberal nature. A thorough ground 
work of psychology, economics, sociology and biology should 
be laid, and literature, modern languages, law, hygiene, mu- 
sic, household arts, and many cognate subjects will prove 
valuable to the woman who aspires to service in this field. 




This is Oregon's famous "Hello Lane" — the strip of walk leading from the Library to Deady and Villard halls. Al 
Prof." — Litters the characteristic Oregon greeting "Hello". Democracy is something more than a name at Oregon. 



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Business 

Every year the great world of business numbers among 
its workers a larger percentage of women. The success 
achieved by a woman in some capacity thought heretofore 
to be unsuited to her is now-a-days hardly a matter of com- 
ment. Women are no longer merely "clerks" and stenogra- 
phers, but buyers and office managers. There are women 
cashiers in our banks, women passenger agents in our rail- 
road offices. There are private secretaries, heads of de- 
partments and purchasing agents. Everywhere positions 
of trust are filled by women. 

Not only that — but women are taking the initiative and 
organizing and managing industrial enterprises of their 
own — and doing it successfully, too. 

Recognition of the great need for special training in 
the world of commerce and industry is manifested in the 
School of Commerce. Courses in office management, ac- 
counting, banking, insurance, etc., prove of greatest value 
to the girl who plans to be a "business woman." 




channel flows the stream of college life. Everyone passes everyone else, and everyone — "be he Senior or Soph, or even a 
oth a cherished tradition and a vital reality. No one can walk along "Hello Lane" and be unconvinced of that fad. 



18 The University of Oregon 

Music 

The School of Music of the University of Oregon offers 
excellent training for young women who desire to prepare 
themselves for professional work either as vocalists or 
players, or to fit themselves as teachers of music. Compe- 
tent instruction is offered in voice, piano, violin, orchestral 
instruments, and in musical theory and composition. The 
Girls' Glee Club and the University Orchestra provide op- 
portunity for valuable training. The degree of Bachelor of 
Music is offered, and graduates are fitted for public work — 
if their talents are sufficient to warrant it — or for private 
teaching or public school work. Natural aptitude is, of 
course, a prime prerequisite; but, given this, and the will- 
ingness to work, a young woman may, in four years, pre- 
pare herself for a career that is not only congenial but 
highly remunerative. 

Journalism and Authorship 

The woman journalist is no longer an oddity, but a re- 
spected and valued member of the newspaper fraternity. 
Among its graduates, the School of Journalism numbers 
women who have already won their spurs in reportorial and 
editorial positions from nearly every newspaper office comes 
the call for college-trained journalists, and, thus far, the 
School of Journalism has been unable to supply the demand. 

Instruction and practice are given in the mechanics of 
printing, type-setting, etc., as well as in newswriting in all 
its varied branches, editing, and in business management. 

An allied field is that of professional writing for maga- 
zines and newspaper syndicates. Short story writing, and 
the production of plays, poetry and special articles are all 
included in courses given at the University of Oregon. 

Other Vocations 

It is not possible even to summarize all the vocational 
opportunities presented in the curricula of the University. 
A woman architect is not an unheard-of thing, and in the 
School of Architecture, training can be had that will fit a 



The University and the Woman 19 

woman for this dignified vocation. Or here she may pre- 
pare herself for employment as draughtsman, designer, in- 
terior decorator or landscape gardener. Courses in Draw- 
ing, Painting, Modelling, Appreciation of Art, etc., will lead 
to a score of vocations in the great world of Arts and Crafts. 

In the School of Law, a thorough training may be ac- 
quired that will equip a woman to enter that profession, or 
which will be of great value to her in some other calling. 

In the pre-medical courses, instruction is given that will 
permit the student to enter the Medical School in Portland, 
or that will prove equally valuable should the girl elect to 
become a nurse or to enter some other department of the 
medical profession. 

In fact, there is hardly a department in the entire Uni- 
versity that has not its vocational outlet. It is not at all 
necessary that the girl clearly foresee her future occupa- 
tion. Let her but take advantage of the opportunities of- 
fered in her University course ; let her develop her own na- 
tive faculties — and, if the need or the desire arises, she will 
at least have gone a long way toward preparing herself to 
earn her living, or what is better — to be of service in the 
world that has but little use for unuseful people. 




A living room in one of the sorority houses. Here, under the chaperonage of a "House Mother", the 
young women lead happy, studious lives, form friendships that are life-long, and learn valuable social 

lessons. 



20 The University of Oregon 



Health and Hygiene 



TT is no longer considered either immoral or immodest to 

recognize that a woman has a body and that both her in- 
dividual happiness and her social value depend in large 
measure on her physical well-being. Health, physical vigor 
— these are the birthright of the American girl, and it is 
expected that the modern university shall do its share in 
safeguarding and promoting the health of the young women. 
During the first two weeks of her liffe at the Univer- 
sity of Oregon, each girl is required to take a physical ex- 
amination, administered by a physician, assisted by the in- 
structors of the Department of Hygiene and Physical Edu- 
cation. The heart, lungs and general physical condition are 
examined and various strength tests are given. The results 
thus gained are used as a basis for the physical work ap- 
pointed for the girl. This work consists of three hours a 
week devoted to various exercises and one hour given to 
the class in personal hygiene. 

For approximately the first six weeks in the fall, and for 
a rather long period iri the spring, the work is largely out 
of doors, and consists in forms of athletics under the di- 
rection of skilled instructors. Tennis, golf, hockey, base- 
ball, basketball, canoeing and swimming are all prescribed 
and are enjoyed by the girls who participate in them. 

For the remainder of the year, the class work is con- 
ducted in the commodious open-air gymnasium, where drills, 
calisthenics, dancing, etc., are practiced, or in the closed 
gymnasium, where the apparatus work is carried on. 

In the class in personal hygiene, the girl is taught the 
principles of health. Instruction is given in proper meth- 
ods of eating, dressing, sleeping, etc., based on a study of 
the anatomy and physiology. 

In general, the work is carefully adjusted to the needs 
of the individual. If the girl is not strong, a gradual build- 
ing-up process is prescribed. Corrective gymnastics are 
not infrequently indicated. If a serious disability appears, 
the girl is sent to a competent physician. 




Four of the numerous residential halls in which the women of Oregon live during their college life. From top 
to bottom: Delta Gamma sorority, Mary Spiller hall, Gamma Phi Beta sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. 



22 The University op Oregon 

When the Girl Goes to College 

r^ OING to college is an experience — one of the most mo- 
mentous, the most significant, the most delightful, of 
all of the experiences of a girl's life. It is an experience 
to which the girl looks forward with the keenest anticipa- 
tion, and — perhaps — just a little apprehension. Up to the 
time of her first departure for college her life has been 
bounded by the influences of home. She has been called 
upon to make but few decisions, to assume but little re- 
sponsibility. What will it be like — the new life — with its 
new environment, its new influences, its new requirements, 
its new friends, its new standards? The average girl has 
at least visited the University of Oregon before deciding 
to enter the institution as a student. Perhaps she has been 
a guest at the Junior Week End festivities or some other 
gala occasion. So the way is a little made easy. In all prob- 
ability she has friends already on the campus who will wel- 
come her. But even if she doesn't know a soul, there will 
be no lack of those whose business and pleasure it is to as- 
sist and counsel the new-comer. Some of the preliminary 
arrangements may well have been made before going to 
Eugene — by correspondence with the Registrar or the Dean 
of Women. The entrance credits may have been submitted, 
and information gained as to a suitable boarding place. On 
arrival at Eugene, probably the matter of first importance 
is to find a place to live. If not already provided for, the 
University authorities may be consulted, lists of boarding 
houses obtained, and specific suggestion received. In this 
way time and mistakes may be saved. 

With at least a temporary living place found, the next 
step is to register. This is done in Johnson Hall, when the 
incidental fees and Student Body tax are received and en- 
rollment card issued to the' student. At the same time she 
is assigned to an Adviser — a member of the faculty, whose 
business it will be during the first two years of the Univer- 
sity course, to direct the student in the important matter 
of mapping out a course of study. The Adviser will find 



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out all that he can about the girl — her training, her apti- 
tudes, her aspirations, and, in making the first selection of 
courses, will, so far as seems wise, be guided by the girl's 
own wishes. From the Adviser she will go to the various 
instructors to obtain their signatures on her study card. 
The new girl will also make the acquaintance of the Dean 
of Women and be enrolled in her official files. 

With these necessary preliminaries out of the way, the 
new girl — a Freshman now — will relax a little and submit 
to the impressions of the new world. With her friends- - 
whether they be old friends or new-found ones — she will 
stroll about the charming campus, with its shaded walks, 
its velvety lawns, inspecting the buildings — the venerable 
old ones, ivy-clad, and the imposing new ones. She will be 
shown the Senior Bench, the Mill Race, the Condon Oaks, 
Hello Lane, Guild Hall, and a score of other places of in- 
terest. Perhaps more than in the attractions of the cam- 
pus she will be interested in the new people. The professors 
will not be half so formidable as she had feared, and the 
students not at all different from the boys and girls "back 




The Women's Gymnasium has been recently enlarged by the addition of a wing, which is so constructed 
as to provide all the advantages of exercise taken in the open air, combined with protection from rain. 



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home." The one thing more than another that will impress 
the new girl is the spontaneous friendliness, the "Hello" 
spirit that is so essentially characteristic of Oregon. Ev- 
eryone speaks to everyone else, and the comradeship is so 
contagious that the new girl has little opportunity to feel 
strange. 

The first week is a busy one — what with the first reci- 
tations with their puzzling assignments, the new books to 
be bought and all the many little adjustments to be made 
to a new set of conditions. Every day brings its new ex- 
periences. During the first two weeks the Freshman girl 
will undergo a physical examination — explained more fully 
elsewhere. She may be entertained at one or more of the 
sorority houses where groups of girls are living together 
in organizations, which, with the exception of the "House 
Mother" — an older woman, who serves as a chaperone and 
exercises a general supervision over the girls, are managed 
by the members themselves. 

Then there is the first "assembly" — the first Wednesday 
at ten o'clock in old Villard — where the Freshmen will, for 
the first time, see the student body en masse; and the first 
football rally, when the "Oregon Spirit" will be expounded, 




"Indoor baseball" has been found to be excellently adapted to women. Played out of doors, it is a 
sport that finds many enthusiastic followers. 



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and she will hear the famous "Oski-wow-wow." Athletic 
heroes and other notables are pointed out to her. At the 
first meeting of the Freshmen she will become identified 
with the classmates with whom she is to spend the four 
years of her college life. 

Homesickness, strangeness, perplexities there may be. 
The new studies are not like those she knew at high school ; 
and the methods of studying are entirely new. There is no 
teacher or mother now to tell her to prepare this lesson or 
to perform that task. She is thrown on her own resources, 
forced to discover her unsuspected responsibility and inde- 
pendence. 

And so, gradually but surely, the new girl becomes a 
part of the University and enters the experience to which, 
if rightly appreciated, she will look back, in later years, as 
one of the most precious of her life. 



Household Arts — A New Department 
For Women 

YV7ITH all the present-day cry for "vocations for women" 
there is a danger, perhaps, in losing sight of the fact 
that, for most women, the chief vocation, the chosen voca- 
tion, is that of housekeeper and homemaker. The idea that 
housekeeping might be made a science and homemaking an 
art is comparatively a new one. Girls, young wives and 
mothers, did things as their mothers had taught them and 
apparently were quite satisfied with the result achieved. 
But modern science has extended its probing fingers into 
the kitchen, the pantry, the dining room — in fact, into every 
cranny of the modern house; and scientific investigation, 
experimentation, planning and method have developed an 
entirely new order of things; and vastly improved condi- 
tions in a million homes are eloquent witnesses to the 
achievement. 

For the year 1917-18, the University of Oregon announc- 
es a new department — that of Household Arts — purposed 



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More than one spot on the bowery campus of the University has been used as a background for an 
out-of-doors play. The one pictured above is "The Comedy of Errors" — presented as a feature of 

Commencement in the spring of 191 6. 



to provide for the girl students the training they may re- 
quire to make them efficient in all the exacting duties of 
that highest of all professions open to women — home-mak- 
ing. 

The University is fortunate in having secured as the 
head of the new department Miss Lillian Tingle. To stu- 
dents from Portland and the vicinity, and to all who are 
readers of the Portland Oregonian, Miss Tingle requires no 
presentation. For the past nine years she has been the 
head of the domestic science work in the Portland school 
system. For a longer period she has edited the Domestic 
Science column of the Oregonian. 

Miss Tingle's experience is of the broadest. She has 
studied in half a dozen schools and colleges. She has trav- 
elled extensively, acquainting herself with the domestic 
conditions and the methods of teaching the household arts 
in most of he enlightened countries of the world. As a 
writer, she has contributed to many of the household mag- 
azines. 

Miss Tingle will bring to the department of Household 
Arts a training that could hardly have been bettered and a 
rich experience that gives entire assurance to the success 
of the new position she has assumed. 

In 1917-18, the courses offered will be somewhat tenta- 
tive, but as the department grows and finds its functions, 



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new courses will be added until the entire field of household 
arts will be thoroughly developed. 

The following matter, taken from the University cat- 
alog, will give the general scope and direction of the work : 

Elements of Cookery — This course includes a general survey of the 
elementary problems of cookery, with an introduction to planning and 
serving meals in the home. Elementary chemistry, physics and biol- 
ogy are desirable preliminary or parallel studies. 

Elementary Food Economics — This is an elementary course de- 
signed for students who have not taken the science courses that are 
prerequisite to the course in Food and Nutrition. It includes a dis- 
cussion of the functions and nutritive values of foods, the feeding of 
families and groups, with particular reference to nutritive require- 
ments and the cost of food in relation to the family budget. An ele- 
mentary knowledge of cookery is expected as prerequisite to this 
course. 

Food and Nutrition — This course offers a survey of the nutritive 
values of foods and the nutritive requirements of thfe body. In the 
laboratory, food values are studied quantitatively and problems in 
dietaries in the different ages and conditions are worked out con- 
cretely. General chemistry, and if possible, organic and physiological 
chemistry and physiology are prerequisite to this course. 

Textiles and Textile Fabrics — This course considers the primitive 
form of textile industries in order to make clear their later develop- 
ment; the present methods of carding, spinning and weaving; the 
modern growth, manufacture and finishing of cotton, wool, silk, linen 
and the important fibres, and their properties and values in relation 




Aesthetic dancing is everywhere recognized as a necessary part of a girl's physical education. It cultivates 
rhythm, grace and a sense of beauty. It is, moreover, a spontaneous, natural form of self expression. 



28 The University of Oregon 

to their manufacture. The identification, and grading of textile ma- 
terials, their names, kinds, prices and widths are considered, as well 
as their variation in weave in regard to beauty and strength and the 
use of cotton, silk, wool and linen for clothing and household fur- 
nishing. 

Closely allied courses in other departments, most of which will 
be accepted for credit in this department are: 

The Home — This course deals with the site, plan, and construc- 
tion of the house — that house to be a home. 

Furnishing the House — This course is designed to be supplemen- 
tary to the course in The Home. It will include a study of household 
furnishings and household administration from both the economic 
and decorative point of view. 

Sanitary Hygiene and Household Sanitation — The economy of the 
microbes, pure water, pure air, pure milk, and pure food. 

Household Budget-Making — This course deals with household ac- 
counting and includes some instruction in the general principles of 
business which are necessary for efficient home keeping. The course 
will include a discussion of the amount that should be set aside for 
various expenses, such as furnishing, life insurance, fire insurance, 
living expenses, etc. The importance of an inventory and the ways 
of taking one will be studied, as well as the reconciling of an account 
with a bank statement, the cash book, expense record, etc. 

What Does It Cost? 

"L_J OW much money does it take ? 

Few of the women who are members of the student 
body at Oregon come from homes so affluent as to make that 
question unnecessary. The matter of expenses, of finances, 
must be considered. For some girls the problem is easily 
solved: father signs checks for whatever is needed. At 
Oregon these girls are in the minority. Thq greater num- 
ber find it necessary to practice economies, to spend care- 
fully, to do without, or to contribute in whole or in part 
to their own expenses. 

There are four modes of living at the University: at 
Mary Spiller Hall or in the new dormitory, when completed ; 
in a sorority house ; in a private boarding house ; "baching." 
The cost of the first three is about the same. At Mary 
Spiller room rent is $7.50 to $15.00 a semester (half year), 
and board is $3.75 a week. In the sorority houses the cost 



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of living — board and room — is from $20.00 to $25.00 a 
month. In private boarding houses the cost averages 
$25.00 a month. A list of such boarding houses is pre- 
pared by the University authorities, and an effort is made 
to see that they are suitably managed. The number of 
girls living in this way is, however, comparatively small. 
An experiment that is full of interest is that of four 
girls who found it necessary to economize and accordingly 
tried a co-operative house-keeping arrangement. They 




Experts in physical education say that swimming is a sport that is especially suitable for women. The 
fine swimming pool at Oregon is, at certain times, set aside for the use of the girls, and a skilled 

instructor is present. 

rented a furnished apartment, consisting of three rooms 
and bath. For this they paid $10.00 a month, including 
water and light, but not fuel. A wood-burning heater kept 
the rooms warm and cooking was done by gas. 

The division of work and of financial cost was made to 
suit the circumstances of the girls. One who was studying 
for "Honors" and doing outside work, did no housekeeping 
at all, but contributed $18.00 a month to the little menage. 
Another did practically all of the buying and cooking, but 
paid nothing. The other two helped with the work and paid 
smaller amounts. One of these received milk and butter 
and eggs from her parents who lived in the country. 



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The University Orchestra is another highly successful organization. It is exclusively a student body 

institution, made up largely of those studying in the school of music. The practice in ensemble playing 

is valuable, and the concerts are always appreciated. 

The total cash expended was $28.00 a month. Estimat- 
ing the contributed articles of food at retail prices, the 
aggregate was $33.00, or $8.25 for each girl for all living 
expenses, except a little laundry. 

About one-third of the women attending Oregon are 
earning money to put themselves through college. The work 
that they do is of the widest possible variety. They do 
typewriting, clerking, office work, nursing, newspaper re- 
porting, caring for children, etc. House work, however, 
in all its various branches, provides employment for the 
greater number. The demand for girls who will work for 
their room and board is usually greater than the supply. 
The service rendered in this way is not arduous, and the 
girl is a respected member of the household. To insure 
fairness and guard against misunderstandings, the matter 
of domestic service of all kinds has been reduced to a 
schedule which insures fairness to both parties. 

The girls who "work their way through" suffer no loss 
of social standing. That should be thoroughly understood. 
But it means a severe tax upon the strength of the girl, 
and should be attempted only by those of strong physique. 

The total cost of a year at Oregon will vary with indi- 
viduals ; but from $250 to $400 is a fair estimate. 



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Life of Women at the University of Oregon 

(By Elizabeth Freeman Fox, Dean of Women) 

J)ERHAPS the four years in college mean more to a young 
woman than any other four years of her life, because 
they are the years of foundation laying. Many a young wo- 
man is testing the truth of everything she has heard and 
learned; is beginning to work out her own life philosophy 
and to make her religion her own. These are years of very 
real and very intense living, and at the same time they are 
years of foundation laying for the bigger life of service 
after college. We put the emphasis on preparation for life. 
The student organizations mean practice in leadership 
and in team work. The Womens' League is an organization 
to which every student is expected to belong by virtue of 
the fact that she is a student at the University. It is a cit- 
izenship organization which represents the interests of all 
residents. It is affiliated with the State Federation of Wo- 
men's Clubs, and thereby gives our under-graduate women 
an insight into the larger work of the women of the whole 
state. 




The Girls' Glee Club is an organization of which Oregon is proud. Not only do the members enjoy the 
practice in chorus singing under a competent leader, but their concert trips throughout the state are 

exoeriences of genuine enjoyableness. 



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The Women's League creates an atmosphere in which 
voluntary organizations of varied interests thrive. There 
is the Athletic Association. Tennis, basketball, hockey, 
archery, canoeing — all are enjoyed by the women of the 
University. There is the Eutaxian Literary Society; Kwa- 
ma (an honorary sophomore women's club which fosters 
real democracy among the lower division women) ; and 

Scroll and Script 
(a senior women's 
honor society which 
stands for scholar- 
ship and recognizes 
student leadership). 
The Orchestra and 
Glee Club are here 
for those especially 
interested in music. 
The Young Wo- 
men's Christian As- 
sociation maintains 
a bungalow near the 
campus which is 
used by every girl 
in college. Girls 
study and play 
there; Bible classes 

Miss Lillian Tingle, the newly appointed head of the new depart- and religiOUS meet- 

ment of "Household Arts". Miss Tingle is a woman well known 

in Oregon as a successful teacher and an expert in her chosen field. ingS are held there. 

It is an assembly 
place for clubs and societies. A general secretary is em- 
ployed who is a friend to all girls, one whom students seek- 
ing employment are glad to find in her office. (Employment 
bureau rules are elsewhere printed.) 

The Dean of Women is pledged to the best individual 
and combined interests of the women of the University. 
Our ideal is that each woman shall go out from Oregon to 
be the best possible woman in her place, whether it be the 
home or in the professional world. 




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